Heart-Shaped Box vs Idoru: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Rock musicians, Musicians, Fiction
Heart-Shaped Box
Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman's noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans…
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Idoru
“After Slitscan, Laney heard about another job from Rydell, the night security man at the Chateau.”
From first page Berkley paperback September 1997: 21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Is something different here, in the very nature of reality? Or is it that something violently new is about to…
The verdict
- Readers rate Idoru highest: Idoru 4.2 · Heart-Shaped Box 3.8.
- Heart-Shaped Box has the widest readership — 159451 ratings behind its score.
- Heart-Shaped Box runs the darker storyline; Idoru stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Heart-Shaped Box | Idoru | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (159451) | 4.0 (10) |
| Hardcover | 3.0 (3) | 3.8 (162) |
| Google Books | 4.5 (4) | 3.5 (5) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (730) | 4.5 (217) |
Reception
| Heart-Shaped Box | Idoru | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 159451 | 217 |
| Editions | 18 | 30 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 159940 | — |
| Reading it now | 6418 | — |
| Written reviews | 12811 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 4093 | 1956 |
| Pages | 400 | 304 |